Legal Opinion · Dissent
State v. Parnoff
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 3, 2018No. SC 19588Published
1DissentRobinson, J.
The defendant, Laurence V. Parnoff, said the following to Kyle Lavin, a water company employee servicing a fire hydrant located on the defendant's property: "If you go into my shed I'm going to go into my house, get my gun and [fucking]
*665kill you."1 Lavin's colleague, David Lathlean, testified similarly, stating that he recalled the defendant telling him and Lavin that "if [they] didn't get off his property he was going to get a gun or something like that ... [t]o shoot [them]." I respectfully disagree with the majority's opinion, which allows the defendant to use the first amendment to the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Cohen v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Stanley v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- State v. IndrisanoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
- State v. DeloretoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2003
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